Accounting History: Some British Contributions Book

	List of Contributors
	Introduction	1
1	Accounting on a Large Estate in Roman Egypt	13
2	Some Glosses on 'Greek and Roman Accounting'	57
3	Manorial Accounts	91
4	The Perception of Profit before the Leasing of Demesnes	116
5	Agency and the Excessus Balance in Manorial Accounts	139
6	The Oldest European Account Book: A Florentine Bank Ledger of 1211	160
7	Early Accounting: The Tally and the Checker-board	197
8	The Gallerani Account Book of 1305-8	239
9	Balancing and Closing the Ledger: Italian Practice, 1300-1600	250
10	The Scottish Enlightenment and the Development of Accounting	268
11	Early Canal Company Accounts: Financial and Accounting Aspects of the Forth and Clyde Navigation, 1768-1816	297
12	The Development of British Railway Accounting: 1800-1911	327
13	Fixed Asset Accounting in the Shipping Industry: P. & O. 1840-1914	343
14	Accounting in English Local Government from the Middle Ages to c.1835	377
15	The Development of Industrial Cost and Management Accounting before 1850	407
16	Some Aspects of Nineteenth-Century Accounting Development in the West Riding Textile Industry	434
17	The Ministry of Munitions 1915-19 and Government Accounting Procedures	450
18	Robert Loder, Jacobean Management Accountant	473
19	The Early Debate on Financial and Physical Capital	493
20	The End of a Familiar Inflation Accounting Cycle	521
21	Accounting in its Social Context: Towards a History of Value Added in the United Kingdom	539
22	Importing and Exporting Accounting: The British Experience	590
23	The Evolution of Financial Reporting in Japan: A Shame Culture Perspective	614
	Index	643